Rubbing your eyes when you tire

and rub your ears, too.

i learned this from my baby.

It really helps.

*soon after i wrote this i stumbled onto a qi gong video which included some eye rubbing techniques to stimulate meridian points in the eye. i'm not going to post the link because it had racial ridiculosities written in parts of the site... But the technique i've been using ever since is to put my fingers together to make a big point, press them against my eyes gently (depending on how i feel) and then moving my eyes up/down, left/right/ and then criss-crossing them diagonally. These are called the 7 directions, the seventh direction being looking internally :)

He also scratches his forehead, above the eyebrows, and all around the scalp. This makes sense for alleviating tiredness in terms of the meridians, but it will be interesting to see when we stop doing it naturally... He won't because i'll teach him if he forgets :)